Week­ly Cab­i­net meet­ings of­fi­cial­ly re­sumed yes­ter­day at the Diplo­mat­ic Cen­tre, which has been “cleaned up,” ac­cord­ing to Par­lia­men­tary Sec­re­tary in the Of­fice of the Prime Min­is­ter, Nicholas Mor­ris.

Light­ning, heavy rain­fall and gusty winds on Wednes­day night left a fam­i­ly in East Trinidad count­ing loss­es af­ter their roof was torn off and sev­er­al ve­hi­cles were dam­aged. The dam­age to the house is es­ti­mat­ed at over $60,000, and in­cludes house­hold ap­pli­ances—fur­ni­ture, stove, re­frig­er­a­tor, tele­vi­sion, and beds. The cost of dam­age to the ve­hi­cles is yet to be de­ter­mined.

Chief Sec­re­tary Far­ley Au­gus­tine says the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) had the doc­u­ments to ver­i­fy mil­lions spent on over­seas trav­el, but a sim­ple ad­min­is­tra­tive fail­ure meant those records were nev­er sub­mit­ted to the Au­di­tor Gen­er­al.

As un­cer­tain­ty sur­rounds the fate of thou­sands of CEPEP work­ers across the coun­try, San Fer­nan­do May­or Robert Par­ris has tak­en mat­ters in­to his own hands, qui­et­ly re­ab­sorb­ing a few in­to short-term work in his Pleas­antville elec­toral dis­trict.

A quan­ti­ty of cash seized from a house in Val­sayn re­mained in po­lice cus­tody up to Thurs­day af­ter­noon, as of­fi­cers from the Fi­nan­cial In­ves­ti­ga­tions Bu­reau (FIB) con­tin­ue to trace the ori­gin of the funds.

The Court of Ap­peal has up­held the de­ci­sion of a judge to or­der a Bel­mont-based law firm to pay over $1 mil­lion in com­pen­sa­tion for a fraud­u­lent land deal it was found to fa­cil­i­tate through neg­li­gence.

A child­hood friend of kid­nap vic­tim Jankie Satie Karim, who has been search­ing for her in forest­ed ar­eas, is plead­ing with her ab­duc­tors to re­lease her.

A High Court Judge has re­solved a long-stand­ing dis­pute with a com­pa­ny, a bailiff, a wid­ow and a busi­ness­man over con­trol of a 7.7-acre par­cel of land in Ma­yaro.

A 37-year-old man was shot while stand­ing near a fruit stall in Mor­vant on Wednes­day af­ter­noon.

As­sis­tant Chief Fire Of­fi­cer (CFO) for south Trinidad, Mukhar­ji Ram­per­sad, says ap­pro­pri­ate mea­sures have been tak­en to ad­dress a rat in­fes­ta­tion at the Ma­yaro Fire Sta­tion.

T&T is com­ing off its dead­liest year on record, with 624 mur­ders record­ed in 2024—mark­ing a grim mile­stone in the na­tion’s his­to­ry. As pub­lic fear con­tin­ues over the fre­quen­cy of vi­o­lent crimes, one pri­vate se­cu­ri­ty com­pa­ny is tak­ing proac­tive steps to help turn the tide.

Women’s marathon world record-hold­er Ruth Chep­ngetich was pro­vi­sion­al­ly sus­pend­ed for a pos­i­tive dop­ing test on Thurs­day.